Ah yes, the highly debated topic on this wonderful platform known as steemit...Self voting. It's the thing that becomes selfish and annoying. And the thing is, a lot of your well known whales are notorious for this. Not all of them do it, but a lot of them just upvote themselves and their whale or dolphin friends. I could literrally name so many people who do this, but i'm not going to, just because I am going to be nice.
Self voting isn't bad under a few circumstances, those being that you regularly vote on other people and you don't comment on someones post and upvote your own comment without even upvoting the post itself. Which is really annoying. I hate it when someone comes to my post, comments, and then only upvotes their own comment without even upvoting my post that I spent time on. That is just plain rude.
Self voting isn't okay when you only vote on yourself and your own comments without upvoting the author's post. It etiquette people...Come on. I see so many people using others' posts as a way to vote themselves and only give themselves money, which is something a lot of dolphins and whales do, sadly.
What sucks is you find yourself working hard on a post and thinking things out, and you have someone who comments and self votes without even upvoting the content made by the author. That is just rude, and it is already rude when the only person you already vote for is yourself and maybe a few of your home boys.
Come on, whales and dolphins!
P.s not all whales or dolphins act like this, but a good amount do.
I agree that many of the dolphins and whales do only support certain members. The "love" needs to be spread out more.... but I think it will in time. This is still a very new platform in both social media and cryptocurrency. I think it does need time to mature and "get the wrinkles out." I think it has gotten better but still needs improvement in this aspect. I don't like seeing the same type of posts by the same people over and over on the trending page, that to me doesn't make sense.
The argument has been that "this person" works hard on their posts, "look at all the pictures and all the writing too!" But it is of the same person doing the same thing over and over with just a change of venue. I get it, some people like that and it does work, but constantly trending?
The other issue I see is that many of us perpetuate this vicious cycle of maintaining these said posts on the top of the trending page. We see this person post this "same old article" but give it a higher percentage Up Vote, well because they get paid well on their post so my curation vote will get paid more too. Then on the next post by "joe schmoe" and we will up vote it at 5% percent because " well, even though it was well written with many unique points and pictures he doesn't get paid much so my vote won't either." This mentality has led me to vote in this manner. I try to no longer do this "as much." Honestly, I still do it although not as much. I do try to spread my vote out to those that don't get paid as much and lower my voting percentage on those that already do well. I see others that still up vote the trending posts at higher voting percentage and then lower it for the regular users. Not fair. Not really, it is what it is But if we consider ourselves each individual shareholders to this endeavor, then it is a self harming attitude and action in the end. So I think eventually people will catch on and realize that it is better if we support newer members that we here on steemit call the MINNOWS.
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I can empathize with your feelings, but Steemit voting is so far gone it's hardly worth bothering with. There is no point in taking it seriously any more.
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The pictures had me dying with laughter
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finally someone who can appreciate my photo collection
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Dark Truth Of Steemit
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I agree @alex icey love does need to be spread can you come upvote my post because I have only been on steemit for 5 days and I really want to make some money thanks
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Thanks for the post. I agree that people should upvote the post before upvoting their comment. :)
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for sure!
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Really so nice steemit working, thanks for good sharing
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I can't believe someone would do that, that's messed up, I read posts because as you mentioned it's work to create these posts upvoting your own comment not upvoting the post is just showing greed ...Karma is a bitch so no worries...it'll come back to you. ...thanks for sharing this sorry this happens but glad you bought it to our attention. :)
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Thanks for your feedback. I totally agree. I followed u.
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Out of curiousity, I know you pointed out other whales who keep self-voting. But what other whales did you notice that keep self-voting themselves?
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I'd prefer not to say...but hell with it. Look at @sweetsssj ... one of the many examples
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i'll take a look. thanx.
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shut up you spammer
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